Quote Originally Posted by Dionysius View Post
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Well, no, not really, lol. If you bought a small house with the intent to transfer to a larger house, they've already all been bought out in Ishgard, save for a few FC mediums. You'd need to wait for auto-demo (which is currently off, and rare in larges), or wait for someone to randomly they decide they want to abandon their brand-new Medium or Large.

All that aside; there's 18 wards for FCs to fill until 6.2, which is several months away. In that time, it's likely that all of those plots will fill. Any that are empty will have, most likely, dozens or more bids each. Then you have to win the lottery.

We've spent since the Firmament preparing. In this scenario, years have been spent "prepping" and "progging", but realistically, there is no guarantee you will "clear". You could be good at clicking a placard repetitively and never going to the bathroom before, or fast at relocating, but in the current system you literally can't be "better" or "more skilled". You place a bid. You wait 5 days. You lose. You wait 4 days. You place another bid on another house, you wait 5 days. You get the point. You could go quite literally years in this situation without getting a better home because you lost to a random number generator. There's no mechanics at play here. This is more akin to the Cactpot (except you don't even get to choose your own number, it's assigned based on bid order) than it is to any Savage or Ultimate. I can learn those. I can learn to move and be absolutely perfect and precise, with practice. You can't learn or get better at a lottery. You can just keep playing and hope the odds land in your favour. I have played the Cactpot for 2 years, and I have yet to get better than just above the consolation prize.

I can't get better at Cactpot, either. Why? Because it's also an RNG lottery system. There's no improving at it. You can't get "better" at a random number generator unless you literally hack it so it always rolls in your favor.


This might have been comparable in the old system, where you could simply be faster and have a better machine/internet connection/ping than everyone else and sprint to the plot you wanted, on a route you charted out before-hand and relocate to your plot. But, that's no longer an option. They did consider a 50/50 split for lottery, but there's no telling whether they'll do that, whether the non-lotto plots will allow transfers, etc. And even at the end of all that, we still need to wait until 6.2 for the re-evaluation- where, currently, if any player from wards 1-18 in any zone relocate, their former plot is now -1 player plot, meaning there will be less player houses up for grabs, at least until that point. It's a diminishing pool as it is now.

When it finally does unlock, we'll be fortunate if there's anything left in Ishgard at all. Your arguments make me wonder if you're just trying to bait people for the sake of grief, but I honestly can't tell.